by Just the News | Dec 30, 2022
by Joseph Weber A 28-year-old man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the stabbing deaths last month of four University of Idaho students, according to several news reports Friday. Paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police show Bryan...
by Neil Jones | Dec 30, 2022
Results of the Arizona general election recount were revealed in court Thursday morning, showing that results in the race for attorney general between Democrat Kris Mayes and Republican Abe Hamadeh shrunk, but not enough to overturn the race. The final results are...
by Hannah Poling | Dec 30, 2022
Summit County Republican Party Chairman and statewide party Vice-Chair Bryan Williams officially announced his candidacy for chairman of the Ohio Republican Party on Wednesday in a letter to state central committee (SCC) members. The Ohio Republican Party’s...
by The Center Square | Dec 30, 2022
by Andrew Powell Changes could be coming to Florida’s abortion laws after the incoming senate president, Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, said she would like to see Florida’s abortion ban go from 15 weeks’ gestation to 12 weeks’ gestation. The state of Florida banned...
by The Center Square | Dec 30, 2022
by Christian Wade Connecticut lawmakers will see fatter paychecks in the new year with a law that bumps their base pay by upwards of $12,000, once it goes into effect. Legislation approved earlier this year, signed by Gov. Ned Lamont, increases rank-and-file...
by The Center Square | Dec 30, 2022
by T.A. DeFeo A nonprofit has named Georgia’s decision to give $1.5 billion in incentives for a Rivian Automotive electric vehicle assembly plant 2022’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year.” The Michigan-based Center for Economic...
by The Center Square | Dec 30, 2022
by Bruce Walker Michigan’s current $9.87 per hour full minimum wage will increase to $10.10 on Jan. 1. Another increase could transpire in the coming year as well, depending on a determination by the Michigan Court of Appeals. In the meantime, minimum wages for...
by Just the News | Dec 30, 2022
by Anthony Hennen America has seen a spike in overdose deaths since the pandemic, when drug overdose deaths rose more than 14% from 2020 to 2021. The biggest increase, perhaps surprisingly, came from adults aged 65 and over, but rates for adults 35-44 remain...
by Bradley Vasoli | Dec 30, 2022
Governor Tony Evers (D-WI) is preparing for a potential battle with the Republican-run Wisconsin Legislature over the legalization of recreational marijuana. Evers is gearing up to present his biennial budget requests to lawmakers in February and has said there is...
by Just the News | Dec 30, 2022
by Ben Whedon Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, reportedly delayed notifying its students of their receipt of certain academic achievement awards until after the deadlines for early selection at some colleges...
by Star News Staff | Dec 30, 2022
by Anthony Gockowski A former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sleepy Eye, Minn., is facing charges of criminal sexual conduct after he allegedly had sex with an underage intern on multiple occasions. Witnesses first reported Pastor Nathan Van Alfred Luong...
by Star News Staff | Dec 30, 2022
by Jennie Taer The Biden administration is considering expanding the Trump-era illegal immigrant expulsion policy known as Title 42, Reuters reported Wednesday. The plan includes adding Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians to the list of nationalities expelled...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 30, 2022
Antwon Brown, a convicted felon and known Unknown Vice Lords street gang member, was recently sentenced to 138 months in federal prison for drug and firearm charges. Members of the Vice Lords street gang distribute cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and some heroin...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 30, 2022
Tennessee State Senator Becky Massey (R-Knoxville) filed a bill this week that would reimburse people up to $30.00 for taking a first-time handgun safety course. The reimbursements would be funded from fees collected by the state’s handgun carry permit...
